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ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.comSun, 02 Aug 2015 20:31:12 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: btk0036http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3788322
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:00:40 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3788322Tom Brady is absolutely a top 3 QB if not top 2. Top 3 in no particular order is easily Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning.
Brady has more super bowls than any other QB in the league today.
Phillip Rivers is inconsistent as always, don’t emake me laugh and include him in top 5 discussion.
Andrew Luck isn’t there yet as his 3 games against the Patriots prove.
Drew Brees hasn’t been winning games for the past 3 years or so. While he doesn’t have much to support him neither has Brady and he’s been to the AFCCG the last 4 or 5 years.
Eli Manning, LOL. Enough said.
Ben Rothlesberger is inconsistent like Phillip Rivers.
Peyton Manning is clearly getting old, last 3 games he hasn’t played great. Did you see the first half against the RAIDERS, what 0-10 now.
ARod has played excellent this year. Pack just needs to prove that they can win the tough road games. The Pats proved that against the Colts and will have to again in Lambeau.

In conclusion, 1a and 1b in a very tight race and in no particular order are Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady. 3 is Peyton Manning. 4 is Drew Brees. 5 is Andrew Luck.
You could argue for switching Brees and Luck in the rankings.

]]>By: doc363http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3678922
Tue, 30 Sep 2014 20:53:18 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3678922Brady isn’t even a top 10 quarterback at this point. Try to get the Seahawks or the 49ers to trade Russell Wilson or Colin Kaepernick for him. His career will almost certainly dwarf that of either but we’re talking about 2014 Tom Brady, not 2004 Tom Brady.
]]>By: politicallyincorrecthttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3409037
Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:28:02 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3409037BTW.. it is…

Rodgers, Brady, Brees and Manning.. in that order as the 4 elites

followed by..
Rivers and BigBen
w/ young guns Luck and RG3 the most likely candidates to ascend

]]>By: trajan2448http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3408930
Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:36:54 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3408930Manning with the weapons Brady had last year would have gone 8 and 8. Brady is still awesome.
]]>By: jimcarnovenhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3407768
Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:16:30 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3407768How can anyone ask this question after a year in which the man, with no receivers anyone would call a “weapon,” staged all those crazy late game comebacks? Remember Denver? Down 24-0. Remember New Orleans? Cleveland? Houston? The near misses in Carolina, Miami, and Cincinnati?
]]>By: barbarogarbeyhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3406906
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 23:42:21 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3406906Is this a joke? I freakin hate Tom Brady, but he is clearly one of the top 5 QBs in the NFL.
]]>By: samphilvista82http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3405646
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:27:30 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3405646Forget the Top 5 argument. If your team is playing the Patriots next year, and you are up by 6 or less with 2 minutes to go and the Pats have the ball – do you feel comfortable about the final score? Think about it. Until the answer is Yes, he’s up there.
]]>By: drakosthttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3405606
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:00:43 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3405606sixchr says: Jun 3, 2014 2:05 PM

Tom Brady is slipping a little bit. Tom Brady probably isn’t the best QB in the league anymore. But if you think there’s five quarterbacks in the league better than Brady you’re smoking something.

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I’m smoking something and still know He’s top 5. Those who point out his stats last year should take a second look at his receivers. Inexperience and lack of skill killed their offense.

Also the argument in regards to taking away Blount instead of Brady falls a bit short in my opinion. I feel that Denver was more confident that their corners would be able to shut down the Patriots receivers, which they did so quite effectively.

]]>By: coldwater32301http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3404958
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:13:41 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3404958Its mind boggling to see as to why Andrew Luck is constantly on everyone’s Top 6 QB list, like what has he done to deserved said clout, that fact that he has taken over for Peyton shouldn’t be the lone reason, he’s good but i’m hesitant to call him great, just hasnt done it for me yet…Indeed…
]]>By: nite2alhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3404491
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:59:45 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3404491Maybe top 5 all time, but his skills have definitely diminished and people choose to ignore it. Plain and simple, Brady can’t throw deep anymore and you can’t win the big one with 5 yard passes without a great defense.

People dump on Flacco, but his ability to throw deep got him a ring.

Brady will have a subpar year, but you all will make a dozen excuses for him.

]]>By: discosucs2005http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3404486
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:44:55 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3404486It really depends on how the question is being asked, because if we’re redrafting the league right now, I doubt Brady would be one of the first five quarterbacks taken because guys who are NOT as good as Brady, such as Newton, Wilson, Kap, are younger and will be better in five years then Brady will be in five years.

But if we’re talking “hey, you have one season to win a Super Bowl, which QB are you taking?” there is no way Brady isn’t in the top five of that conversation.

]]>By: nickel501989http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3404459
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 08:20:20 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3404459And to all those people saying put Brady on any team Manning had and he would do better, are you out of your minds? Remember, he was a Colt for most of his career where his team was mediocre at best, no better than the patriots were last year. There are only a select few QBs who could even come close to replicating his stats with that team. Marino, Favre, Maybe Elway (but that might even be pushing it), and maybe Rivers (given the fact that the Chargers have just about always been at the same level as any of Manning’s teams). Brady would crumble like he did last season. A top 5 QB can put up numbers no matter how much talent is around him, not crumble when that talent is gone.
]]>By: nickel501989http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3404457
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 08:05:20 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3404457There is no way in Hell. Top 10? Maybe? Even that is pushing it. He’s always had amazing talent around him, that’s why he has the numbers he has but now that he doesn’t have much anymore, he is showing how mediocre he really is. I mean Matt Castle outperformed him when he got injured and threw for 400+ yards. Where is he now? He is a better than average player who always had talent around him, not a top 5 QB anymore. He may have used to be with the talent around him but there are a lot of names I would put above him as of late.

1) Manning
2) Rivers
3) Brees
4) Rodgers
5) Either Luck or Wilson

I am sick of all the hype about Brady, I just want him to retire already so I don’t have to hear the media worshipping him like a God when he is barely above average, just lucky to have the talent around him for all those years.He will NEVER be anywhere near Joe Montana, Brett Favre, Dan Marino, Steve Young, John Elway, or any other one of the greats, at least in my eyes. Just because he was lucky in the past doesn’t mean he is still anywhere near a top 5 player anymore. Put him on a mediocre team and he would have NEVER put up numbers anywhere similar to what he has been able to with the patriots.

]]>By: feedthegodshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3404443
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 06:42:13 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3404443I question the logic of anyone who suggests that Jay Cutler has a “viable” claim of being a top three QB, and also considers Matt Ryan a superior to Eli Manning.

I’m a Steelers fan. So I hate the Pats. But Brady? Top three in the league, no questions asked. Let’s be serious here, guys.

]]>By: swagger52http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3403414
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:06:05 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3403414I wish Flacco could play the cream puff AFC East and play all the tough games at home. I can only wonder how many playoff wins and Super Bowls he would have won.

Oh…I almost forgot…throw in the Refs that make the phantom interference calls to benefit Brady

]]>By: 8oneanddoneshttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3402662
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:29:31 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3402662He has made it to the final four each of the past three seasons.
]]>By: marima07http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3402276
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 23:42:08 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3402276SD snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, with LaDainian Tomlinson sulking on the bench all alone instead of rooting on his teammates.

But SD did not win that game… NE did.

]]>By: bubbawordhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3401634
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:51:30 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3401634SD game the same one where Brady was picked off and they had won the game except the guy didn’t fall down and Troy Brown then stripped him of the ball and the rest is history. SD won that game!
]]>By: pats1977http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3401548
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:17:24 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3401548Funny this article exclude Brady as a top 5 QB, when the year and the only time P. Manning won the SB they faced a Brady team that had Reche Cadwell as the #1 receiver, whom by the way cost them that game with 2 crucial drops. The guy was wide open both times. He had so wide open that the entire Pats’ side had time to tell Brady to throw the ball to him. Then, Brady threw a perfect pass, he dropped it as he was trying to catch the ball with his body as opposed with his hands. Manning and the colts had to come from behind to win that game with the help of the drops of Cadwell, and of course the officials.

May I say this was the same year, the Pats beat the almighty chargers. Everyone was picking to win the SB. And the Pats wen to SD and beat them.

1. Early in his career, Matt Light (LT) stopped everyone and Brady had an extra couple of seconds. Remember the constant phrase “Brady steps forward in the pocket calm, cool and collected”? That was due to Matt Light. So, when you called him “the greatest” back then, that was due to Matt Light. Peyton had an incredible offensive line back then, too.

2. Last year, his receivers kept dropping the ball and his TEs were non-existent. So, forget last year!!

3. Due to #1, I never thought Brady was great at the long pass. He just had more time.

4. The Pats won in the early 2000’s because defense wins Superbowls and their defense was so cool to watch.

5. When Matt Light started getting older, with less time, the Pats offense was 3-and-out against the Giants. The Pats still haven’t found a great pass blocker to defend Brady.

With all that said, Brady hasn’t slipped. The team has changed and, if anything, he is smarter. Give Brady the same team he had in the early 2000’s and he could have 5 Superbowls by now.

The only reason ANYONE says Brady has slipped is because it grabs your attention and you read their blogs or because they are Patriots-haters because they are so freakin jealous!

Has Brady ever been the greatest? Seriously? Give him that early team or give him ANY of Peyton’s teams and he would rack up Superbowl rings. He has been in the running for “the greatest” all along, at least!

]]>By: pats1977http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3401414
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:28:46 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3401414What an idiot!!! I thought the game plan for every football team is to stop what your opponent does well….the team’s strength. The passing game wasn’t the Pats’ strength last year, especially without Gronk. Did this idiot forget that up until last year teams were begging the Pats to run the ball and they would crowd the middle of the field with 5 dbs so that Brady wouldn’t throw the ball? This is the reason why the Pats drafted Ridley and Vareen in the same draft. The Pats wanted to punish teams with the run when they are in sub-package.

While he often does get overrated due to multiple factors like playing under one of the best coaches in NFL history, he’s still top 5.

]]>By: RE LEEhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3401237
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:05:33 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3401237Are there other quarterbacks who can drag last year Patriots team as far as Brady did? Manning, Brees, Rodgers? Take any quarterback and plug him in that situation and imagine how far he’d go. Manning as much as I like the man crumbled shamefully even with all his formidable arsenal. Brady gave as thrilling, improbable wins last year and earned his peers’ respect, ironically, with his worst stats. — all things considered, Brady is # 1.
]]>By: coldwater32301http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3401125
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:11:00 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3401125They just need to release Tom Brady… sincerely a Dolphins fan…Indeed…
]]>By: bubbawordhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3401042
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:23:05 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3401042Eli rules over Brady – beat him twice in the Super Bowl and that’s all that matters. When the money is on the table I’ chose Eli a thousand times over Brady. Eli delivers. Eli’s spot in the hall of fame will be two steps above Brady’s. Eli can make his speech before Brady and down go the Pats. Put your money on a winner, put it on Eli. Brady has choked in every big game after Spygate!
]]>By: mjdkid100http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3400818
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:36:41 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3400818clipper222 says: Jun 3, 2014 2:26 PM

Russell Wilson proved he is a better QB than Brady last year.

Joe Flacco proved he was a better QB 2 years ago, and then decided he was just kidding.

Brady is not currently in the top 5, and he hasn’t been for a few years.
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Hasnt been for a few years? What an idiot.

AFCCG’s, 34 TDs 8 INTs in 2012, 39 – 12 the year before, MVP the year before that.

He had one off year with no TEs, No WRs and they went to a running game. They still were better than everyone but one team in their conference.

Stupid.

]]>By: marima07http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3400806
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:29:58 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3400806So Brady is held accountable for the pass that hit Welker in the hands but was incomplete. Manning gets a pass for his Super Bowl game-ending interception against the Saints plus the complete debacle that was last year’s Super Bowl appearance – despite an all-star receiving corps.

And the ‘others’ you mention who should be considered ahead of Brady? Really?

Interesting scale you’re measuring with.

]]>By: patsfan112http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3400214
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 01:05:42 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3400214Um, Tom Brady is still Top Dog in the league. When someone else wins three SB rings AND beats every single record he has then he has been dethroned. To claim he is slipping but Peyton Manning isn’t is a joke. Brady’s TEAM isn’t what they used to be, but Brady is STILL Brady.
]]>By: fritz96http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/06/03/is-tom-brady-still-a-top-five-quarterback/#comment-3400202
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:55:19 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2262996#comment-3400202The AFC Championship game this year where Manning threw for 400 yards might be considered somewhat important…

“lolo376 says:
Jun 3, 2014 6:06 PM
So P Manning is a top 3 but chokes every big playoff game? Holds record for most playoff losses? Smh”